We await the Christian world’s great festival: the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. In silent waiting we raise our eyes, we free ourselves from the worries of everyday life, and the soul’s horizon opens up. In this special atmosphere we can sum up the past year and think once more about the nature of our tasks in the world for the year ahead.
On Kossuth Radio on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary will face further attacks because – following the failure by leaders to agree on this issue at the EU summit in December – those who want mandatory resettlement quotas in Europe will continue their efforts next year.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI that on Wednesday in the Parliament Building Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo Jean-Clément Jeanbart on Hungary’s provision of further assistance to persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
In the Parliament Building on Wednesday, at the founding meeting of the national assembly of delegates of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that Hungary can have no future without land owned by Hungarians.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has written to former European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet on the latter’s 75th birthday.
Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister told Hungarian news agency MTI that in the Parliament Building on Tuesday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Marius Vizer, President of the International Judo Federation (IJF) held talks about Hungary’s sports development strategy regarding judo and the importance of the education of young athletes.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent a letter to Sebastian Kurz, congratulating him on his appointment as Federal Chancellor of Austria.
In a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi said that Prime Minister of Hungary and Chairman of Fidesz Viktor Orbán has sent a letter of congratulations to Horst Seehofer, Chairman of the German Christian Social Union, on his re-election as leader of Fidesz’s sister party in Bavaria.
“I would like to thank Hungarians who took part in the national consultation for having lent their strength to us and to me personally, and for having enabled me at this summit – in particular, during late Thursday night – to successfully ward off the attacks which came within an inch of infringing Hungary’s sovereignty”, the Prime Minister said in Brussels, after the EU summit held on Friday.
In Brussels on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Hungarian news agency MTI that, in the European Council, heads of government had long and lively, serious, in-depth talks on the subject of Jerusalem. During these talks, he said, Hungary had successfully represented its standpoint.